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Key Shortcut Function
F11 Replace Edit the first of selected clip(s) from Media Pool or Source
Viewer to the Timeline
F12 Place On Top Edit from Media Pool or Source Viewer to the Timeline
Shift-F10 Ripple Overwrite from Media Pool or Source Viewer to the Timeline
Shift-F11 Fit to Fill from Media Pool or Source Viewer to the Timeline
Shift-F12 Append To End Edit from Media Pool or Source Viewer to the Timeline
Undo Command-Z
Redo Command-Shift-Z
Introduction to Three-Point Editing
Three-point editing is a standard editorial method that’s shared with many other post-
production applications, so this procedure should feel familiar. The idea is that you need only
set any combination of three In and Out points in the source clip and Timeline to edit a clip into
your program at a specific time, and DaVinci Resolve automatically figures out the fourth edit
point that’s necessary to execute the edit. Three-point editing is most commonly accomplished
using overwrite and insert edits.
Choosing a Track to Edit to
Using Destination Controls
The orange destination controls, found in the Timeline header area, let you specify which video
and audio tracks you want incoming source clips to be edited to when you use editing methods
other than drag and drop. No matter how many video or audio channels may be embedded
within a single clip of media, only one video and one audio destination control is available. In
the case of video, you can only expose one video channel of a clip at a time. In the case of
audio, all audio channels for a given clip are embedded within a single Timeline track, making it
a snap to edit stereo or other multi-channel audio sources together. (For more information
about working with audio, see Chapter 36, “Working with Audio in the Edit Page.)
Setting the destination control of a track is a vital step in the process of creating an edit, and is
easy to do. You can set the video and audio destination controls to be separate tracks.
To assign the destination tracks of incoming source clips, do one of the following:
Click the destination control of any unassigned track to enable that track as the
destination.
Drag the destination control to any unassigned track in the Timeline.
Press Command-Shift Up Arrow and Down Arrow to move the Video destination
controlup and down among different video tracks, or press Command-Option Up
Arrow and Down Arrow to move the Audio destination control up and down among
different audiotracks.
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